Many of our customers that we’ve catered for over many years have been surprised by the fact that we will happily slow-roast a hog for several hours on-site before a food service. Unless it’s truly impractical, we cook the hog from scratch at your venue, ensuring freshness and optimum quality. We carefully prep the meat at your venue first, scoring it and adding water, salt and any marinades or rubs requested, and we keep a watchful eye on the Hog Roast Elston as it cooks ever so slowly, even if it’s a huge beast that can take 7 or 8 hours of clear cooking in the winter months!
The result is just how we believe a Hog Roast Elston should be served – hot and fresh, with crispy, salty crackling formed on the outside and juicy and tender meat slices on the inside that will just melt in your mouth. Then there are the extras that you simply have to serve with the meat, in order to get the best tastes in your mouth. Our traditional and tasty homemade stuffing and scrumptious homemade apple sauce always get as many compliments as our meat does, and on Sunday when we catered Judith’s 50th birthday party, we were told several times that we should bottle them up and market them!
Judith’s husband Bryn asked us to cater the evening event at their daughter’s countryside home, and our team arrived in the afternoon to start roasting the medium-sized pig for a good few hours before the guests would arrive. Bryn requested our winter warmer menu, which we are of course still serving in these chilly months. In addition to the Hog Roast Elston, we would serve a selection of seasonal vegetables and potatoes with the accompaniments, and then top it all off with our own delicious onion gravy. Bryn asked for a medley of carrots, parsnips and swede, and a tray of warmed new potatoes, all of which we would add to the roasting machine some time before service.
By serving time, the meat had cooked beautifully and Judith and her family and friends all tucked in to our lovely, warming food, and forgot about the biting winter cold just for a little while.